Serenity… an expedition


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I completely missed Black History Month. Missed writing about it, anyway. I’m not terribly surprised, though – it seems the last thing I want to do during Black History Month is write about Black history. General contrariness, I think.
Instead, I read a lot. Or downloaded at lot to read, even if not quite yet. I [...]

Tuesday, March 2nd

one of my biggest time “wasters”…

is the “recommended books” feature on iGoogle. I could just keep clicking, reading summaries, clicking, reading until… well, one day I did just that and eventually it said “no more recommended books” or something like that.
Felt like I’d reached the end of the internet.
Luckily, it was just taking a breath before again filling my screen [...]

Monday, September 7th

From place to place

I’ve just finished (well, all but a few pages) the underground railroad book. What a read, I don’t want it to end. Well, I do because I think it ends at the Civil War, but I’d love it if it was twice the size, with more stories of the various escapes and the workings of [...]

Tuesday, September 1st

reading now: bound for canaan – the underground railroad

The problem with reading about historical events that you may or may not have had a previous interest in is – is the more you read, the more you realize how much you don’t know. And need or want to learn.
Already I have been leafing through the extensive bibliography in this book, Bound for Canaan: [...]

Thursday, August 27th

and stuff

Every spare moment, these days, I seem to have my nose in a book. No hardship, that, I love to read, but these days it too is almost like work.
My itty bitty library across the street is coming in so handy. They have a very limited selection there, but with being able to order in [...]

Saturday, August 8th

This Is An Awful Lot Like Work

As I mentioned in a previous post, I want to I am going to write a book and, today being the first day it’s been only me and my mom in the house, I decided to get started right away because scenes are writing themselves in my head. And that’s what I sat down to [...]

Sunday, July 5th

If Not For Boo Radley…

mockingbird

I’ve read all the books I got from the library the other day, save one. No great feat – I only got four in the first place because, even with the small selection they had, I had a tough time seeing the books. The titles or the author names or anything. I do wear glasses [...]

Thursday, June 18th